Our Gluten Free Garlic Confit Recipe is naturally gluten free and delicious. I encountered the beauty of roasted garlic about 7 or 8 years ago and there is no looking back for me. It has such a wonderful taste.
Why a Gluten Free Garlic Confit Recipe?
I was watching someone on YouTube doing a curry recipe and he used garlic confit. I could almost smell it through the tv screen. It looked so good, so smooth and so roasted that I knew I needed to try it. Being Italian, I grew up with lots of garlic. I grew to adore it. When I was hungry, I would sneak cloves of garlic and just eat them. Thinking back, I have no idea how I actually ate cloves of garlic, but I did.
To come up with this recipe, a deep dive through confit recipes was needed. The internet is a treasure trove of both good and bad information. Confit is the practice of cooking and storing food low and slow in oil or fats. Confit is a french word that means preserved. So, I wanted to preserve my garlic. My first attempt gave me a glorious garlic and thyme based oil that is delicious in cooking. I also got a bunch of wonderfully slow roasted garlic cloves which I can also use in all my recipes. Win – Win is the outcome of this endeavor.
I found two recipes. One roasted the garlic for 1 hour at 190 degrees fahrenheit. The second recipe was at 250 degrees fahrenheit. My understanding of a confit is that it should not boil. It also has to be warm enough to actually roast that garlic. I went with 210 degrees when I found the 250 degree recipe was boiling my garlic. Oh, no, no! I left it in the oven at 210 degrees for two hours and 15 minutes. Yes, my kitchen smelled amazing. An odd mix of thyme, garlic and cakes.
What to do with All that Garlic Confit?
Well, the first thing we are going to do is a basic gluten free caesar salad dressing recipe. The rest of it is going in the fridge for the next few months. It will be amazing in all our recipes and dinners. Yum. Who knew how good gluten free garlic confit was going to be?
I also thought immediately that this would be amazing in our garlic aoili recipe.
We ended up with many many roasted cloves of garlic and about three cups of flavored oil.
Gluten Free Garlic Confit
Equipment
- 1 baking pan
Ingredients
- 5 heads garlic skins removed
- 3 cups olive oil
- pinch salt
- pinch pepper
- 10-12 sprigs fresh thyme
Instructions
- Clean and separate each head of garlic. Remove Skins
- Place all the cloves of garlic into a baking dish
- Add the sprigs of thyme to the baking dish
- Pour the olive oil over the garlic until it is covered with the oil.
- bake in a 210 degree oven (Fahrenheit) for two hours and 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool.
- Scoop the garlic cloves out of the baking dish into another container.
- Cover the garlic cloves with oil. You must keep all the cloves immersed in the oil.
- Put the remaining oil into a glass jar and use in cooking.
Nutrition
Informational Links:
What is Confit & How to Do It
The Historic Origins Of Confit